Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by HALtheWise on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:51PM
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Does anyone know how the AUP of Amazon and other services interacts with E2E encryption? For example, Signal uses AWS to host many of there servers, if Amazon discovers that people are using Signal to share unsightly content, can the demand that Signal kick those users off the platform? If Signal's processes and technology aren't capable of doing so, can AWS demand they change that?
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Re:Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
by tptacek on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:52PM
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I think the right mental model to have here is that AWS can boot any customer that becomes problematic for them, including Signal. It seems unlikely that you can skirt their AUP terms by constructing a service that makes it impossible for you to comply with their terms.
Amazon can enforce their contracts selectively. The contract isn't a statute; it's an agreement between two parties. Amazon could presumably strike up a side agreement with a customer that overrode the "master" contract. I'm not a lawyer, but stuff like that happens in consulting somewhat regularly, where you have an MSA governing all your projects, and specific contracts for weird projects.